FICTIONAL WOMEN ARE QUEENS, NOT THE REAL ONES

During my basic statistical search, I came across the following:

29th August, 2017 - Criminalising Marital Rape May Destabilise Institution Of Marriage: Centre Tells Delhi HC.

8th November, 2017 - The Human Rights Watch report found that willingness to report rape and other sexual offences had significantly grown, but was often stymied by regressive community attitudes, particularly outside big cities.

In one case highlighted in the report, a “low-caste” woman from Haryana state was pressured by her village council to sabotage a trial against six men from a more powerful caste charged with raping her. “She didn’t have another way,” a relative of the woman told HRW. “If you want to live in the village, you have to listen to the councils.”

6th November, 2017 - Recently, research by Young Lives in coordination with National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) revealed that Rajasthan has reported the highest incidence of child marriages.

But, these are not issues of concern even if the same trend of crime has been running through the veins of "traditional" India since inception. The primary issue of concern is a movie based on a fictional queen. (sarcasm intended)

A queen created through the imagination of Malik Muhammad Jayasi in 1540 has now become a subject matter of violence in the nation. I have written many poems and I will never want any of my poems to be used as a prime subject of outrage by people who did not even exist while I was creating my art of work or by people who had no concern or connection with my work, reason for my work, my thoughts during my work, etc. Criticisms are always accepted but burning, shattering down malls, threatening to behead people or actually hanging dead bodies are not forms of criticisms.

When one person with a creative mind writes a poem and another such person decides to give a pictorial representation to that poem, there is no basis on which any outrage is supposed to happen. In fact, there are many other other pressing issues related to "real" and "living" women that require attention instead of "fictional" queens. Another surprising part is that people who are protesting are men, the heads of such groups are men, the ones who are seen creating violence as per circulated videos are also men. When such groups of  "Mr. We Worship Our Women All The Time" are out on the streets, why aren't they walking down with their female counterparts with them? Or will this ruin their image that a woman is out on the streets screaming to protect another? Or is there a possibility that women might as well get raped just because she was outside her house trying to protest when these are things that a man is entitled to do and not a woman?

Courtesy: The excerpts of articles are taken from the websites that are hyperlinked to the dates. I acknowledge these websites. Thanks!

WHAT LIES BENEATH?

We often fail to visualize the reality and move towards the mode of attaining our ultimate desires. Desires are not everything. However, due to gradual development in science and technology, these modes are made easy and accessible. But, the fact remains that the reality gets ignored in such a pace of evolution.

According to St. Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica, there is a difference in the understanding of essence and existence. If we gaze into our virtual thoughts of essence, we start paving paths to arrive at this essence. What we ignore is the existence. We know that if we find a whole cave made of Dragonglass, then we can eliminate the Night King and his Army of the Dead, but what if such a cave never existed!; in that case we would have to find alternatives which would be something like Beric Dondarrion’s sword that fires up by the grace of Lord of the Light (a little inference from Game of Thrones).

The problem with human nature is that we look out for better things and once we catch hold of them, we ignore the existing material objects. In fact, that’s human nature and nobody’s fault. The fault lies in not realizing it. As long as we do it with things, its understood because they don’t have any feelings of despair, but when people start doing the same with other people, it lasts a mark in their minds. This imprint never leaves because it marks the inferiority in that person. Gradually, this fires up the flame of wrath and envy making every other person a Satan or a Leviathan (Characters from “Bisfield’s Classification of Demons”, 1589).

In very modest and sober terms, we call this feeling “competition” to make it look decked up professionally. Little do we realize that this shadow named ‘competition’ is actually from a source which is a blended figurine of Wrath and Envy. Not that competition is a bad thing in itself; but, the badness pours out of it when it is won by crushing others on the way. Hence, we should not just try to be like the modern toy umbrellas where the cloth has barely any strong connection with the handle; be the old classic umbrella where the cloth tightly held on to the handle because it knew that if its on the top, then the only reason is the support beneath it.